Re: [OT] 1500 days uptime.

[Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Nick Warne wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >BrrrrrrrrrrrrBrrrr
> >
> >That was me blowing my own trumpet again :-)
> >
> >Re:
> >http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0407.1/0651.html
> >
> >Now just hit 1500 days:
> >
> >-
> >[nick@486Linux nick]$ last -xf /var/run/utmp runlevel
> >runlevel (to lvl 3)                    Sun Oct 14 16:07 - 21:41 
> >(1502+06:34)
> >
> >utmp begins Sun Oct 14 16:07:40 2001
> >-
> >
> >Utterly remarkable - the box gets no maintenance at all.
> 
> But it clearly gets a very reliable flavor of electricity...
> >
> >I would love to know how much data it has delivered, but alas, in 2001 I 
> >wasn't up-to-speed with that sort of thing :-)
> 
> We got one to 1460 or so, then got BSOD on the controller which switches 
> from the UPS to the diesel when they get up to speed, dropped power on 
> the whole data center (at work).
> 
> I think you have the record, though.

I'm not sure about that one. =)
I had a Pentium 233MMX pc running for 5 years 3 days.  Booted Nov 18th 1999
and was downed due to a UPS failure around Nov 21 2004.

5 years counting 2 leap year days (2000 and 2004), that's 1827 IIRC.

It was running kernel 2.2.13, 64mb ram, 1.6gb disk, it was a dns server nfs
root server and a NIS server.  Other than that it didn't do much.  It did
get use via the network everyday.  Too bad I don't have a last entry from
utmp before it was killed.

If anyone is interested in the last entry, I'll see if I can dig itup from
old backups.

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